Bruce How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind

Madness and Black Radical Creativity
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1242-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten

Reihe: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study

La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of “madness” in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce, La Marr Jurelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1. Mad Is a Place 1
2. "He Blew His Brains Out through the Trumpet": Buddy Bolden and the Impossible Sound of Madness 36
Interlude. "No Wiggles in the Dark of Her Soul": Black Madness, Metaphor, and "Murder!" 71
3. The Blood-Stained Bed 79
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Black Woman 110
5. "The People inside My Head, Too": Ms. Lauryn Hill Sings Truth to Power in the Key of Madness 139
6. The Joker's Wild but That Nigga's Crazy: Dave Chappelle Laughs until It Hurts 172
7. Songs in Madtime: Black Music, Madness, and Metaphysical Syncopation 201
Afterword. The Nutty Professor (A Confession) 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 303
Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

La Marr Jurelle Bruce is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.